Bootcamp Syllabus

The Test Automation Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, three-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, software architects, QA Testers, IT managers, and Web professionals how to build high-quality software using test automation from beginning-to-end.

Module 1. Quality Engineering Process Fundamentals

• Continuous Test Engineering Patterns
• Integrating Test Automation Into Your Environment
• Scheduling, Resources, and Test Operations
• What To Do With The Results

Module 2. Test Planning, Strategy, Patterns

• Types of Testing
• Unit Tests
• Object Level Unit Testing (Using JUnit)
• Service Level Unit Testing (Using Enhanced Unit Tests)
• Functional Testing
• Smoke Testing (Using Functional Unit TestSuite)
• Regression Testing
• Load and Performance Testing
• Understanding the results (Analyzing the Scalability Index)
• Calibration Tests to identify test environment capacity
• Business Service Monitoring
• Method to repurpose tests as service monitors
• Logging strategies to prove Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Designing BSMs to operate within production environments

Module 3. Model Driven Testing

• Defining User Archetypes
• Turning User Archetypes into Functional Unit Tests
• User Goal Oriented Testing (UGOT) Techniques
• Operating a Model Driven Test
• Data Driven Testing
• Defining a data model
• System service dependencies
• Designing A Multiple TestNode Test
• Hands-On Data Driven Test (Web Application Test using MySQL)
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Testing
• Understanding the SOA Model
• Designing Consumer/Service/Broker Tests
• Protocols, Message Formats, Business Flows, Deployment
• Modern Web Application Testing
• Understanding the Web Model (HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, JSON, Ajax)
• Designing Ajax Tests
• Data Formats (String, XML, JSON,) Protocols, and Components
• Results Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis using Step Value Reporting
• Top 10 Results Charts
• Turning Results Charts Into Actionable Knowledge
• Choosing The Right Test Design
• Record/Playback
• Mocking The Browser
• Running Code In The Client (Ajax)

Module 4. Putting The Tools To Work

Section A. soapUI for SOAP-based Web Services

• Installation
• Top Use Patterns for soapUI
• Basic's of WSDL
• Hands-On With eBay Web Services
• Basic Auction Search (Basic SOAP requests from WSDL definitions, Custom SOAP headers, using property file data)
• Verifying Products from a Auction Search (Multi-step SOAP operations with data sharing between requests and responsses)
• Negative Testing and Counting Auction Search Results
• Mock Services (Virtualized Services)
• Create a mock service
• Dynamic response based on request data

Section B. TesgGen4Web for Web and Ajax Applications

• Installation
• Top Use Patterns for TestGen4Web
• Transforming to Jython
• Transforming To Java
• Firefox and XPath Dependencies

Section C. Selenium for Web and Ajax Applications

• Installation
• Top Use Patterns for Selenium
• Browser Dependencies
• The Selenese Language
• Selenium IDE
• Transforming Selenese to Java, Jython Unit Tests
• Operating Distributed Tests in Selenium
• Top Mistakes Made in Selenium

Section D. PushToTest TestMaker v5.1

• Installation
• Top Use Patterns for PushToTest
• Results Analysis
• Enhanced Results Analysis Engine (v5.2)
• PushToTest As A Service
• Integration with SOA Repository/Registry for Test Governance
• TestScenario Definition for Test Orchestration
• Transformation Utilities (Java and Jython)
• PTTMonitor for Correlating Resource Usage During Tests
• Distributed Test Environment Deployment Patterns

Module 5. Integrating Test Tools Into Your Environment

• Lifecycle Management Platforms (Maven, Governance, Ant)
• Command-line Operations

Module 6. Supporting Technology To Effectively Build Tests

• SOAP Stacks (Apache Axis, XFire)
• XML Parsers (JDOM, StAX, DOM)
• Message Exchange Systems (ESB, JMS, Message Queues, Event Processors)

Module 7. How and Where To Get Help After The Bootcamp

• Resources Available To You
• Thought Leader Contacts
• The Top 10 Ways To Get Support